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Panama's Public Transport Fastest in the World
By The Boss on Mar 16, 2008 | In Politics, Expat, Business | 2 feedbacks »
Some people are complaining about public transport in Panama City. Nonsense. We probably have the fastest buses in the world! Compite Panama!
That, of course, comes with a price, which we should be willing to pay if we value on-time delivery of passengers. A bus may catch fire. Or, in its urge to get there first, capsize, break in half and leave many dead and wounded. The one in the picture, for example, was racing against a competing bus - the wonders of the free market system! - to get at the next stop primero, but didn't quite make it. Passengers were screaming "stop the bus!" and "go slower!" before the crash, killing two and leaving 31 wounded. That's what you get when you distract the driver from his work. No arrests have been made however.
None of this should be any reason not to send your children to school by public transport.
